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VOL. XLVI NO.
129 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW
BATTLES
Nazis Batter
Leningrad;
Kiev, Odessa
Artillery Starts Fires In
Leningrad; Russians Say
Attackers Driven Back
MOSCOW, - Sept. 6. (AP)
Russian forces, pressing
counter-attacks on the ap
proaches to Leningrad were
reported today to have driv
en the Germans out of an
entire zone along a vital rail
way after a three-day battle.
The Russian counter-blows
still were smashing at the
Germans, the report said.
By the Associated Press
The German invasion of Rus
sia, finishing its eleventh week
today, was a story of three cities
Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa
each defended by all the steel
and sinew the soviet union could
bring to bear against the close
drawn peril of conquest.
For all three the climax seem
Jd approaching.
The German high command,
with a brevity that has, grown
typical of late, said only: 'Opera
tions of attack in the cast are
progressing favorably." '
Informed Germans said the
Russians lost 49 planes yester
day during air batHos and luft
waffe raids on airpases.
Heavy German air attacks in
the vicinity of besieged Odessa,
on the Blacki'sea coast, were
said to have caused great dam
age to port facilities and four
ships totalling 17,000 tons and
pumerous casualties among Rus
sian defense forces.
The n Russians, admitting the
steady! force of assault, said that
soldier and citizen armies were
grimly defending each of the
thpe great cities.
Pbving Torn Up for Shield
r. Odessa, the Black sea port
whose history dates back to early
Grecian days, was reinforced by
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Judge M'Mahan To
Ignore Bar Charge
SALEM. Sept. 6. fAPI Cir
cuit Judge L. H. McMahan, an
nouncing that the state bar trial
committee had cited him on mis
conduct charges, said today he
would refuse to appear and would
not file an answer.
McMahan charged that the
move bv the bar "is a political
maneuver bv lawyers, by men
who don't like my independence
,.ln the way I conduct court."
McMahan said the bar's
charges were based on the filing
of an- affidavit of Dreiudice
against McMahan by Robert T.
Mautz, Portland lawyer, last De
cember, and McMahan's resulting
denunciation of Mautz. The bar
complaint says that McMahan's
statements "are wholly false, un
founded in fact and defamatory
and libelous of the said Robert T.
Mautz."
Ex-Bank Manager Admits
Embezzlement Charge
BOISE, Sept. 6. (AP) Pleas
of euilty were entered vesterday
bjrRotert'fcee Carvolt, 33. "tenner
manager of the Weiser branch of
the First National bank of Idaho,
to 10 counts of falsification of
records and embezzlement.
. He pleaded innocent to one ad
ditional falsification and one em
bezzlement count In a federal
grand lurv Indictment, and will
go on trial Monday.
The government charged ap
proximately 515,000 had been embezzled.
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RAGE It GATES OF 3 BIG SOVIET CITIES
Douglas County Booth at State Fair Wins Praise
News-Review Engravlnff.
The Douglas county booth at the Oregon State fair Is outstanding among the county displays
and has compelled much attention and won high praise. As pictured above, the booth features the
timber industry through the use of log slabs. Stuffed turkeys and a cage of live chipmunks also serve
to attracfattention. More than 75 pounds of Umpqua valley literature was distributed to visitors at
the booth, durin.i (lie first three days of the fair and In response to demand a like amount was sent
to Salem Wednesday for. further distribution during the closing days. The booth was arranged by
Paul Abeel, H. D. Palmer and Harry Brltton and is in charge of Miss Lu Britton.
Plywood Concern
Purchases Timber
Lands Near Tiller
The Douglas county court to'
day announced the sale of l.GOtf
acres of timber lands to the
Roseburg Plywood company,
which recently contracted pur
chase of a millsite near Rose
burg and announced plans for
construction of a plywood factory
in the near future.
The land purchased by the com
pany is located on the watershed
of Jackson creek, a tributary of
the South Umpqua river north
east of Tiller. The property lies
in sections 2, 10, 12 and 16, town
ship 31, range 1 west. The tim
ber is reported to have a high
percentage of peeler stock.
Officials of the plywood com
pany; arranged this week with en
gineers of the Southern Pacific
railroad for location of a mile
long spur track to be built on
the millsite property.
According to previously an
nounced plans of the plywood
corporation, the timber holdings
on the South Umpqua will be
used as a backlog for local operations-.
The company plans to pur
chase peeler logs from the vari
ous small mills operating through
out the county, but will have
available from its own holdings
sufficient timber to assure opera
tion in! case of any lack of supply
from other sources. The property
purchased from the county, is lo
cated in close proximity to urn-
ber lands previously held under
private ownership by the com
pany.
Haughn Boy Dies
Of Bullet Wound
William Haughn, 14-year-old
bey, who was accidentally shot
while shooting at stumps with
another youth a short distance
Berth of Rascpiirrj 'rrt tjiuta
day afternoon, died during the
noon hour today at Mercy hos
pital. The bullet, from a .22 cali
bre rifle, penetrated the boy's
abdomen and liver, lodging
against the spine, and was re
moved by surgeons. The body
has been removed to the Rose
burg Undertaking company's
morgue. Funeral details will be
announced Monday.
I SAW
By Paul
&9
MRS. MARY EASTMAN, teach
er of the Willis creek school, as
she arranged a display of pottery
the other morning in the office
of the county school superintend
ent in Roseburg. I had heard
some rumors of the deposit of
pottery clay which had been
found at the schoolhouse on Wil
lis creek, and was exceedingly
glad of Mrs. Eastman's visit to
the office, with sneclmens of pot
tery work done by the 4-H club
members of her community. I
know that I can't do any better
than quote verbatim from some
notes she gave me, concerning
the clay and the school:
"The school was started by the
pioneers who settled the region
in the falls of the years 1851 and
1852. Amone them were Harrison
Rice, the Moores, Robert Phipns,
Stenhen D. Willis and Leland Gil
land. Their descendants live in
the district today. Harrison Rice,
who had a great love for music,
held singing school. People and
Dupns iravejiea several mnes
from Rice creek and Kent creek
to attend.
"The schoolhouse was moved
to Reveral different locations on
the creek, as It was twice burned
bv the Indians and once by a
careless schoolboy. It was the
14th school started in the county.
"The first teacher was Mathew
Neoves. He was succeeded by
Delia Rice, whose niece, Mrs.
Winnie Winston McCormack, and
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grandniece, Mrs. Floy McCor
mack and a granddaughter by
marriage to Mrs. Winnie McCor
mack (Mrs. Eastman, shown in
the accompanying photograph)
also taught their first schools
there. (The school Is to be dis
continued next year, Mrs. East
man Informs me.)
"Some of the pupils who spent
their early years In the little rus
tic schoolhouse were Sylvester
Rice, Eva Rice, Delia Rice and
Aggie Rice Winston.
"The school term, In the early
years, was 6 weeks to 3 months,
depending on the weather. The
school was supported by the fami
lies settled in the community and
the teachers "boarded 'round,'
their salary being $50 per month.
The last descendant of the old
pioneers to graduate from the
school, last spring, was Miss
Helen Verdell Phipps, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Phipps of
Willis creek."
The clay which Mrs. Eastman
and her nuplls have used was dls
"covereu mTh'creei-niS firt uvaiue"
the school. Mrs. Eastman for
long has been interested In the
study of pottery-making, so she
and the children decided to make
clay work their 4-H club hobby
protect. It seems to me (who
must nrofess entire Ignorance
with all forms of pottery making
or the materials necessary for It )
that Mrs. Eastman and the chil
dren have done an extraordinar
ily good Job of their project.
Its Weapons, Converting the Arbitrary
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
inn
Oil I In I I
uuvu
Record Tax
Bill Sent To
Conference
House, Senate Leaders
Begin Adjustment; Levy
Of $5 Put on Automobiles
' WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.
(AP) Jubilant over the senate's
67-to-5 approval of the record $3,
583,900,000 tax bill late yester
day, administration lieutenants
strove today to hurry along the
adjustments of differences ' be
tween that measure and similar
legislation passed by the house.
The bill, which would bring an
estimated 4,911,000 additional
persons under the income tax
structure and thus raise an extra
$303,000,000 of revenue, was rush
ed through the senate in only
three days.
,Both proponents and opponents
said the measure was only a step
toward paying the nation's huge
defense bills. The house ways and
means committee has estimated
that . all -. federal . expenditures
would exceed 522,000,000,000 dur
ing the next fiscal year, which be
gins July 1.
Existing taxes, plus the senate-approved
levies, are estimated
by treasury experts to yield about
$13,500,000,000 during the next
calendar year. Chairman George
of the senate finance committee
predicted the total federal income
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Farm Labor Plea
Will Draw 8,000
From Portland
PORTLAND, Sept. G. (AP)
Portland responded to a plea for
farm laborers today with a plan
to send 8000 residents to the un
der-manned prune, string bean
and hop fields of the Willamette
valley during the week end.
Chairman M. L. Dayton of the
Mantle club said his organization
had contacted more than 3000
persons and, with state employ
ment service cooperation, plan
ned to direct many more to the
farms today and tomorrow.
Greatest Influx to the harvest
fields will be on Sunday, and, al
though it will be largely a one
day effort, It might get farmers
past, the critical period, Dayton
said.
The employment service, esti
mating the crops as worth 310,
000,000, warned that only four
days remained before beans and
prunes would spoil, and that
hops would maluro within 10
days.
The town of Hood River also
mobilized in an attempt to save a
$1,500,000 pear crop in the Hood
river valley. Most of the town's
residents were expected to go to
the orchards Sunday, and mer
chants have voted early closing
hours for next week to release
employes for afternoon picking.
Many stores will operate with
skeleton crews, and schools will
close Monday.
Youthful Driver Held
Sterns kfs$-in -T!2s4-
MEDFORD, Sept. 6. (AP)
A coroner's Jury returned find
ings holding Clifton Jones, 16,
blameless In the auto-pedestrlan
death of W. A. Maxweil, 52,
struck by an automobile driven
by Jones Monday night. Testi
mony showed Maxwell was out
side the pedestrian lane, and
walked Into the. side of Jones'
car.
1941.
Roosevelt
U. S. in War Charged; Prior
Blow Kills Four Americans
Recruits For
RAF Die In
Sea Attack
Commander of German
U-Boat Exhibits Shame,
Denies Torpedo Firing
GLASCOW, Sept. G. (AP)
Four American recruits for the
RAF were drowned and two in
jured In the torpedoing of the
boat in which they were cross
ing the Atlantic, it was disclos
ed here today.
The names of the drowned
were not immediately available.
Survivors, who were landed at
a British port yeSterday were:
Tom Griffin, Mississippi; Jack
Gllliland, Kansas; Rivers Grove,
Georgia, Norman Echord, Mis
souri; James Jordan, San Fran
cisco; B. F. Mayes, Texas, and
Robert. ..Pereshli), California, . ..
Mayes suffered arm injuries
and Pcreshin a broken leg. They
were taken to a hospital.
The survivors were reticent
about the submarine attack but
said they longed to get into ac
tion in the air.
Nazi Officer Apblogetlo I
William Beattie, Belfast sea-,
man wno was on tne torpcaoeu
ship, told a startling story of
talking to the submarine com
mander after the. attack.
"There were four of us In a
lifeboat," he said, "and it was
water-logged when the submarine
came to the surface. The com-
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Rod and Gun Club
Reorganization
Proposal Launched
Reorganization of the Rose
burg Rod and Gun club to provide
an executive board of 15 mem
bers, was authorized at a meeting
of the club membership at the
chamber of commerce offices last
night. Reorganization of the club
will be placed before the mem
bers at the next regular meeting,
at which time a new set of by
laws will be submitted by a com
mittee composed of Vernon Orr,
Joe Pounds and Bruce Yeagher.
This committee is to make a
thorough study of the organiza
tion of the state federation and
various clubs throughout the
state, and will submit a proposed
form for club control, together
with dates for elections, etc., ex
pected to greatly increase effi
ciency. The new board of directors, ac
cording to present plans, will
elect the officers from among its
own personnel. One-half the
group will hold over each year,
which will keep experienced men
In the club offices. The board
also would be divided into depart
ments with each department hav
ing charge of activities and poli
cies. The members attending last
night's meeting also gave approv
al to a proposal plan for the ac-
-emisMion of H 3ite ftirerinstru.c-
tion of a permanent clubhouse,
trapshootlng grounds, etc. Final
decision on this project will be
left to the board of directors.
Unanimous approval was given
for an expression of appreciation
to all persons, particularly mer
chants of the city, who have as
sisted the club with donations of
merchandise or have otherwise
aided In activities during the past
year.
German Blockade
VOL! XXX NO.
Plan to Plunge
Crew of Greer
Believes U-Boat
Possibly Sunk.
(By the Associated Press)
The men of the U. S. destroyer
Greer, which was attacked yes
terday by a German submarine,
said yesterday that they believed
they had at least damaged, and
possibly sunk, the attacker, bas
ing this on the fact that the Greer
was over her assailant when she
dropped depth charges.
The destroyer was in very deep
water at the time of the attack,
the officers said, and consequent
ly, they added, the submarine
might well have been sunk with
out a trace.
The officers disclosed that Brit
ish aircraft assisted the Greer in
repelling the attacker.
The ship is commanded by
Lieutenant Commander Laurance
Hugh Frost, 39, a native of Fay
ettevllle, Ark. Her normal com
plement is nine officers and a
crew of 113 men, but many units
of the .fleet - now, era carrying
larger crews than usual.
The Greer, a 1,200-tonner, was
launched in August, 1918, at the
Cramp shipyards in Philadelphia.
Her armament includes four 4
Inch guns, an unspecified number
of 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, a
dozen torpedo tubes and the usual
depth bomb equipment. Her de
signed speed was 35 knots,
Iceland Defense
Halts Raiding By
Nazi Sub-Boats
By DREW MIDDLETON
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept 6.
(AP) within a few short months
this Atlantic ocean island has
been turned into a United States
British Gibraltar of the north.
Iceland bristles today with
guns, airfields dot the country
side and warships of America and
Britain comb surrounding waters
in ever-watchful patrols.
Newly-arrived observers are
Impressed at once with the de
fenses of this keystone in a com
munications arch over which
arms and materials pass from
America to Great Britain. Gib
raltar Itself and Malta in the
Mediterranean are scarcely more
strongly-held than thic barren
land, which is half again the size
of Ireland.
Censorship, of course, will not
permit disclosure of the number
of men or the amount of equip
ment here, but it can be said that
the American, British and Norwe
gian forces on the island exceed
the number of trained troops Brit
aln had to repel Invasion in the
summer of 1940.
United States marines occupy
an important place In Iceland's
defense plans. Their guns and
tanks have taken up positions
alongside the British.
In planning the defenses of
Iceland no possibility has been
overlooked. So well have Ameri
can and British forces done their
work that submarine sinkings in
this part of the Atlantic have
dropped to a new low. One re
port has it that not a single mer
chant ship has gone down along
the northern route from the Unit
ed States to Great Britain In the
past seven weens.
Salem Counterfeiter
Draws 18-Month Term
PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (API
Federal Judge Fee sentenced
Wendell J. Troxell, 23, Salem, to
18 months in a federal prison
yesterday on charges of manu
facture and possession of a mould
for counterfeit 50 cent pieces.
Into "Blah'lcade.1;
. BLOCKADE
What will be the next U. S. irtep
to combat nazl Interference with
American ' vessels? Most likely,
intensified naval patrol, increas-.
Ing likelihood of entry into the
war on a shooting basis. Watch
the NEWS-REVIEW wire news
for important developmental
18 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Greer Not Hit
By Torpedoes;
Berlin Says
Germans Also Refer to 1
Their "Blockade" Zone. '
Unrecognized by U. S. '
DCDI Ikl C..1 L IADI tf
German communique asserted
late today that the United
States destroyer Greer opened
,, i iii .
an arracK on a eirman u-Doar
at the order of President Roose
velt "to incite the American
people into war against Ger
many." The communique ' described
the incident as a running battle,
starring at Z:3D p. m. Ihurs
day when a U-boat "was at
tacked by water bombs at
oz.ji aegreer norm end z.uo
west and oursued eontinu.
outly." .' (
(This it the Norrh't Atlantjci
about 200 miles Jouffiweit'of
Keykavik, Iceland, which,' fhef
United Statec njivu cM
the Greer's destination.)
The pniracwmont' It eaM last
ed "until toward midnight," the
utsiroyer pursuing with water
uomDs unsuccessiuny until then.
(The submarine loosed hvn (nr.
pedoes In self defense, the Ger
man version said. This contrast
ed with the story told by Presl
dent Roosevelt yesterday that
without warning, a submarine
tired at the Greer, en route with,
mail to Iceland, and the Greer
retaliated with depth charges.)
Hooseveit Blamed
The Berlin communlniie phnrc .
, n
ed: -.
1. That the United Rtatoo
navv's assertion that the IT.hnnt-
ws the aggressor "can only be
(Continued on page 6)
Vengeful Germans Slay
Three French Hostages 1
PARIS, Sept. 6. (AP) The
execution of three French "host
ages" in reprisal for an attack on
a sergeant of the German army
of occupation in France last Wed
nesday was announced by the)
Germans today.
The executions were the first
of the reprisals threatened by
the Germans In an effort to halt
attacks on German troops OX oe- -cupation.
The hostages, taken from
among thousands of Frenchmen
held in prisons, were lined along
a wall and shot by a German fir
ing squad.
A German warning read: "In
case of a new criminal attack a .
number of hostages correspond
ing to the gravity of the act com
mltted will be shot."
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6.-
Mrs. Mary Allen possessed nona
of the feminine vanity In the mat
ter of hair-dos.
In fact, she was so determined
never to vary the severe coiffure
to which she was accustomed In
life that she directed In her will
that there be "no dye, no crimp
Ing" of her hair In death. '
"But we lAiew nothing of tha
request until after the funeral,''
lamented Mabel Corgas, a close
friend. "The undertaker curled
her hair a little in front,1 .
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